Notes: This was the first story to
go into development after the yearlong postponement of production on
Doctor Who's twenty-third season. The Bakers -- who had recently
completed The Mark Of The Rani --
were commissioned to write the scripts on March 11th, 1985 (under the
misspelt title “Gallifray”). However, no work appears to
have ever been performed on the project, and it was soon supplanted by
The Trial Of A Time Lord.

Characters: The Sixth Doctor,
Peri

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Season
Twenty-Three

Stage Reached:
Story idea

Synopsis: May have involved the
destruction of the Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey.

Notes: Dawson, a veteran
screenwriter, was approached by script editor Robert Holmes to develop a
story which would introduce a new companion to replace Sarah Jane Smith.
The new character was a Cockney girl whom the Doctor would take under
his wing and educate, in the manner of Eliza Doolittle in the George
Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. “The Gaslight Murders”
was quickly abandoned, however. Its spot in the schedule was ultimately
filled by The Face Of Evil, while
Holmes reused the general framework in The Talons
Of Weng-Chiang.

Characters: The Fourth
Doctor

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Fourth story of
Season Fourteen

Stage Reached:
Probably storyline

Synopsis: Involved murders in Victorian
London.

References:Classic
Who: The Hinchcliffe Years

Genesis Of The Cybermen

Writer: Gerry Davis

Notes: Former Doctor Who
script editor Davis submitted this idea circa early 1981, intending it
to be a prequel to his and Kit Pedler's original Cyberman serial, The Tenth Planet (which also featured
Cyberman Krail). Davis wrote his storyline with only the Doctor and one
female companion in mind; he called this character
“Felicity” rather than writing with any particular companion
in mind. Producer John Nathan-Turner and script editor Antony Root were
not interested in “Genesis Of The Cybermen”.

Characters: Presumably the
Fifth Doctor

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Probably Season
Nineteen

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: The Doctor and his companion
“Felicity” arrive on the planet Mondas, Earth's twin
orbiting on the opposite side of the Sun. While the Doctor works on a
piece of TARDIS equipment, Felicity encounters the gentle Prince
Sylvan. Sylvan accidentally activates the TARDIS, sending him, the
Doctor and Felicity fifty years into the future. There, Sylvan's
brother, Dega, is now king and has used the Doctor's device to begin
turning his people into Cybermen. He has constructed a space fleet with
which he intends to invade the mineral-rich Earth, and plans to kill any
unconverted Mondans with cyanide gas. Felicity appeals to Dega's
partly-Cybernised wife, Queen Meta, and she shoots her husband dead --
only to be killed by Dega's chief of staff, Krail. In the confusion,
Sylvan and a band of Mondan rebels flee in the spaceships to Earth; the
massive concussion of take-off knocks Mondas out of its orbit into deep
space.

Notes: The “miniscules”
idea originated in Webber's earliest format guide for Doctor Who,
which had been written by May 1963. The first episode was outlined in a
subsequent iteration of the guide dated May 16th, with the description of
the concluding episodes completed by June 4th. Rex Tucker was assigned to
direct “The Giants”. Biddy, Cliff and Lola would eventually
become Susan, Ian and Barbara, while the idea of the Doctor being
explicitly referred to as “Dr Who” would go effectively
unused. Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman disliked the use of the
caterpillar and spider as “monsters” and felt the story lacked
incident and character. However, it appears that it may have been the
technical limitations of the outdated Lime Grove studio where Doctor
Who was to be recorded which forced the abandonment of “The
Giants” in favour of 100,000 BC.
The miniaturisation idea was unsuccessfully reused in a treatment by
Robert Gould before finally making it to the screen in the form of Planet Of Giants by Louis Marks.

Characters: Dr. Who, Sue,
Cliff, Lola

Episodes: 4

Planned For: The first serial
of Season One

Stage Reached: Scripts for
episodes one and two

Synopsis: Teenager Sue and her teachers
Lola and Cliff meet a strange old man in the fog. Calling him Dr. Who,
they discover that his home appears to be a police box, and it is in fact
a time machine larger on the inside than on the outside. Wrong buttons are
pressed and the four are transported to Cliff's science class laboratory,
but reduced to just an eighth of an inch in height. There, Cliff and Sue
are separated from the Ship and are menaced by a caterpillar, a spider, a
student's compass and a microscope lens. Finally, they manage to
communicate with the students and their teacher and are returned to the
time machine.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine #209, Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First
Doctor

The Guardians Of Prophecy

aka The Place Of Serenity

Writer: Johnny Byrne

Notes: After completing work on
Season Twenty-One's Warriors Of The
Deep, Byrne was asked to develop a sequel to his 1981 story The Keeper Of Traken. He submitted his
storyline around July 1983. However, discord had arisen between Byrne
and script editor Eric Saward during the development of Warriors Of The Deep, and there was
little enthusiasm from either Byrne or the production office to develop
“The Guardians Of Prophecy” any further. In May 2012, Big
Finish Productions released an audio adaptation of “The Guardians
Of Prophecy” by Jonathan Morris.

Characters: The Sixth
Doctor

Episodes: 2
(45-minute)

Planned For: Season
Twenty-Two

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: The Doctor and Peri arrive on
the planet Serenity, which is part of the same Benign Union that once
counted Traken as a member. Serenity is ruled by the aristocratic Elect,
assisted by a mighty computer known as Prophecy. The Doctor is accused
of stealing relics from the vaults of the Elect, but the true culprits
are Auga, recorder to the court, and Mura, commander of the Guard. Aided
by the mercenary Ebbko, who has kidnapped Peri, they have sabotaged
Prophecy's power supply and used the relics to gain access to the tomb
of Malador, the immortal creator of the Melkur. Auga and Mura hope that
Malador will help them overthrow the Elect, but Malador has his own
plans and kills them. Peri escapes only with Ebbko's aid. Malador is
actually Prophecy's evil counterpart; once he has repaired their mutual
power supply, he will transmit a signal that will corrupt all the worlds
touched by Melkur. The Doctor manages to destroy the power supply,
however, creating a dimensional fracture which consumes Malador.

Notes: Hayles was commissioned to
write a storyline for “The Hands Of Aten” on November 16th,
1965. It was abandoned on January 17th, 1966 because departing story
editor Donald Tosh felt that it did not fit the vision espoused by the
incoming production team of Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis.

Characters: The First Doctor,
Steven, Dodo

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Three

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Unknown

References:Doctor
Who Magazine #196, Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First
Doctor

The Harvesters

aka The Vampire Planet

Writer: William Emms

Notes: A couple of years after
submitting this story under the title of “The Harvesters” for
the Second Doctor, Emms redrafted it in 1969 as “The Vampire
Planet” to adhere to the new UNIT format. “The Vampire
Planet” may have briefly been considered for the final slot of
Season Seven -- ultimately taken by Inferno -- but was soon dropped.

Characters: The Second Doctor
(original submission); The Third Doctor, UNIT (resubmission)

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Troughton era
(original submission); final story of Season Seven
(resubmission)

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: The Masters pilot a purple
planet into the solar system and despatch their Roboes to invade Earth.
The Doctor defeats the Masters by frightening them with film of nuclear
explosions.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine #299, DWM Special Edition #2

The Haunting

Writer: Terrance Dicks

Notes: Dicks submitted this idea
around the start of November 1974, and was commissioned to turn it into a
storyline on December 11th. Early in 1975, however, the production team
concluded that it was not what they wanted, and it was formally abandoned
on May 13th. In the meantime, Dicks was contracted to write The Brain Of Morbius instead. Some
elements of the “The Haunting” were reused for Dicks'
abortive 1977 script “The Vampire Mutation”, which finally
became the Season Eighteen serial State Of
Decay.

Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Sarah Jane

Episodes: 6

Planned For: Season
Thirteen

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Involved the Doctor
confronting vampires.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #8

The Hearsay Machine

Writer: George Kerr

Notes: This idea was submitted
around the start of April 1966 and rejected by story editor Gerry Davis
on June 15th.

Characters: The First Doctor
(with Steven and Dodo?)

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Four

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Unknown

References:The
Doctor Who Chronicles: Season Four, Doctor Who Magazine Special
Edition #7

The Heavy Scent Of Violence

Writer: George Kerr

Notes: This idea was submitted
around the start of April 1966 and rejected by story editor Gerry Davis
on June 15th.

Characters: The First Doctor
(with Steven and Dodo?)

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Four

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Unknown

References:The
Doctor Who Chronicles: Season Four, Doctor Who Magazine Special
Edition #7

Hebos

Writer: Rod Beacham

Notes: Beacham, an actor/writer who
had played Corporal Lane in The Web Of
Fear, was commissioned to write this storyline on December 5th,
1980. It was still being considered in April 1981, but was ultimately
not pursued.

Characters: The Fifth Doctor,
Adric, Nyssa, Tegan

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Season
Nineteen

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Unknown

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #9

The Herdsmen Of Aquarius

aka The Herdsmen Of Venus

Writer: Donald Cotton

Notes: Submitted by Cotton
following the completion of The
Gunfighters, it was likely not viewed by story editor Gerry
Davis as being in line with his and producer Innes Lloyd's more serious
vision of Doctor Who. Lloyd and Davis had also complained that
Cotton was difficult to contact. “The Herdsmen” was
apparently rejected on June 15th, 1966, although it still appears on
documentation dated August of that year.

Characters: The First Doctor,
Steven, Dodo

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Season
Four

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Involved the revelation that
the Loch Ness Monster was a type of cattle bred by Aquarian (or
Venusian) farmers.

Notes: Ling (who had written Season
Five's The Mind Robber) and Adair
had cocreated the mid-Sixties soap opera Compact. In 1982,
Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner began developing a
relaunched version of Compact with Ling and Adair, called
Impact. He hoped to leave Doctor Who to produce
Impact, but when the project was shelved by the BBC,
Nathan-Turner offered Ling and Adair a Doctor Who assignment as
consolation. They were inspired to write “Hex” after
observing some beehives that Adair had been asked to keep in her
orchard. They also wanted to take advantage of the Fifth Doctor's
youthful apparance by including a quasi-romantic subplot for the Time
Lord. The storyline for “Hex” was commissioned on July 12th,
1983. Nathan-Turner liked the submission, but script editor Eric Saward
grew gradually less impressed as work on “Hex” progressed.
The story evolved from a six-part to a four-part version, and was then
adapted as two 45-minute episodes for Season Twenty-Two, before finally
being dropped. In November 2011, Big Finish Productions released an
audio adaptation of “Hex” by Paul Finch under the title
“Hexagora”.

Synopsis: The Earth's most brilliant
minds are being kidnapped, and the Doctor traces the disappearances to
the planet Hexagora. Confronting Queen Zafia, the Doctor learns that
Hexagora is spiralling away from its sun, and the Hexagoran civilisation
risks destruction. She claims that the kidnappings are intended to
provide them with the brainpower to find a solution to the dilemma. The
Doctor offers to help move the Hexagorans to an uninhabited planet, but
Zafia will agree to this plan only if the Doctor agrees to a
“marriage of state”. However, Peri discovers that the
Hexagorans are actually bee-like creatures who are transforming
themselves into clones of the kidnapped humans. Their plan is to
infiltrate Earth, but Zafia will first absorb all of the Doctor's
knowledge when they are married. A renegade Hexagoran named Jezz sets
fire to the Hexagoran hives, and the Doctor and Peri grimly rescue the
abducted humans while Hexagora burns.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine #s 213, 214, DWM Special Edition #3

The Hidden Planet

Writer: Malcolm Hulke

Notes: This was an idea submitted
by Hulke on September 2nd, 1963, after being invited to contribute to
Doctor Who in July. Although it was not initially pursued by the
production team, on September 23rd, Hulke was asked to stop working on
“Britain 408 AD” and begin developing “The Hidden
Planet” instead. In mid-October, “The Hidden Planet” was
pencilled in as the seventh story of Season One, then pushed back to
eighth by the time of its formal commissioning on December 2nd, due to the
insertion of Inside The Spaceship into
the running order. A month later, “The Hidden Planet” had been
promoted to the fifth spot, due to difficulties with two other serials.
Unfortunately, when Hulke delivered his script for episode one in January
1964, the production team found it unacceptable and asked Hulke to
undertake rewrites; The Keys Of Marinus was
hastily commissioned to take its place. Hulke disputed the rewrites,
arguing that the episode one script had adhered to the accepted storyline
and that he should therefore be paid extra for any rewrites. This request
was refused, and in March, Hulke agreed to revise his scripts.
Subsequently, the second installment was given the title The
Year Of The Lame Dog. In April, “The Hidden Planet” was a
possible second story for Doctor Who's second recording block. By
July, Hulke had rewritten the adventure as a five-parter, and
consideration was given to making it first in the second block. However,
it was felt that too much work would be needed to restructure “The
Hidden Planet” following the departure of Susan, and there was also
concern about the adventure's lack of monsters, now viewed as a key
component of the programme's science-fiction serials. “The Hidden
Planet” was therefore abandoned by story editor David Whitaker on
September 24th, with its formal rejection coming on October 20th. Hulke
resubmitted his storyline to the production office following Whitaker's
departure from Doctor Who, but it was again rejected on April 2nd,
1965 by new story editor Dennis Spooner, because it still included Ian and
Barbara, who were about to exit the series.

Synopsis: The TARDIS lands on “the
Tenth Planet”, a world identical to the Earth but whose orbit around
the Sun is diametrically opposite to our planet's, and which has therefore
gone undetected. This world is very much like Earth, but there are subtle
differences: four-leaf clovers are plentiful, for example, and glass
refracts oddly. Most notably, women are the dominant sex while men
struggle for equality. The leader of the planet is Barbara's double, and
Barbara is kidnapped by rebels. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Susan and Ian are
embroiled in the struggle for male suffrage.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine #310, DWM Special Edition #7, Doctor Who: The
Handbook: The First Doctor

Synopsis: Following the death of his wife
from heart disease, the wealthy Sherman P Rayburn is determined to set
up an institute to propel advances in medical science. However, his
investments in this project have depleted his financial resources, and
the government refuses to assist him. Enraged, Rayburn turns to a
discovery made by one of his scientists, Professor Martin, who has found
a way to turn a rabbit into a “negative” which can pass
through normal, “positive” materials. Rayburn forces Martin
to use the procedure to create a squad of commandos with which he can
raid government treasuries. UNIT is helpless to stop them until, during
their final assault on the Bank of England, the Doctor convinces the
commandos that Rayburn has concealed the truth from them: the procedure
is irreversible. The shadow squad turns on Rayburn and destroys him.

References:Nothing
At The End Of The Lane #3

The Horror Of Fang Rock

Writer: John Leekley

Notes: This was one of several
storylines which appeared in Leekley's series bible for Philip Segal's
version of Doctor Who, released on March 21st, 1994. It was based
on Terrance Dicks' Horror Of Fang
Rock.

Characters: A reimagined
version of the First Doctor

Episodes: 1 (45
minutes)

Planned For: 1995
series

Stage Reached:
Story idea

Synopsis: The TARDIS follows mysterious
streaks of light travelling through space to a lighthouse in 1906
England. A fog rises and the Doctor saves the passengers aboard a
clipper which runs aground, only to be accused of the murder of the
ship's captain. He must prove his innocence while stopping an alien
which has crashlanded on Earth and has possessed the lighthouse keeper.

References:Doctor
Who: Regeneration

Hostage

Writer: Neil Penswick

Notes: This was an unsolicited
submission which script editor Andrew Cartmel deemed too expensive.
However, he liked “Hostage” enough to prompt a meeting
between himself and Penswick. However, it was not long afterward -- in
September 1989 -- that Doctor Who was cancelled. Penswick later
used some elements of “Hostage” for his Doctor Who: The
New Adventures novel The Pit, released in March 1993 by
Virgin Publishing.

Characters: The Seventh
Doctor

Episodes: 3

Planned For: Season
Twenty-Seven

Stage Reached:
Script

Synopsis: Elite soldiers pursue
shapeshifting criminals Butler and Swarfe, who have stolen advanced
weapons technology and brought it to a jungle planet where the Time
Lords once fought a race called the Scaroth.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine #255, DWM Special Edition #10

The Hounds Of Time

Writer: Brian Hayles

Notes: This storyline appears to
have been submitted around the time that Hayles completed The Smugglers in mid-1966. It was
discovered by Mark Hayles amongst his late father's files.

Characters: The First or
Second Doctor, Ben, Polly

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Season
Four

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: A scientist named Melloris has
despatched robotic hunters to capture humans from throughout Earth's
history and bring them to his laboratory on the planet Terrin. Amongst
those kidnapped are Ben and Polly, but the Doctor pursues them to Terrin
and confronts Melloris. He discovers that Terrin's warlord, Vartan, is
studying mankind in order to determine the optimal point in history to
invade and make Earth a vassal of Terrin. The controlling computer now
identifies 1970 as the crucial year. Having second thoughts, Melloris
tries to stop Vartan but is killed. However, Ben and Polly escape from
the trap, and the Doctor sabotages the computer with a logical paradox,
depriving Vartan of the power he needs to launch the invasion.

References:Nothing
At The End Of The Lane #3

The House That Ur-Cjak Built

Writer: Andrew Stephenson

Notes: A storyline was commissioned
on June 10th, after which Stephenson's idea was apparently abandoned.

Characters: Presumably the
Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Twenty-One

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Unknown

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #1, Doctor Who: The
Eighties

Iceberg

aka Flipback

Writer: David Banks

Notes: Banks, who had played the
Cyberleader since 1982's Earthshock, proposed this story idea
around the time that he reprised the role for Attack Of The Cybermen. Also known as
“Flipback”, it was not taken forward, but Banks later used
it as the basis of a 1993 novel in Virgin Publishing's Doctor Who:
The New Adventures range, featuring the Seventh Doctor.

Characters: The Sixth Doctor,
Peri

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Twenty-Three

Stage Reached:
Story idea

Synopsis: In 2006, human scientists in
Antarctica race to construct a device which will undo an imminent
reversal of the Earth's magnetic field. However, the Cybermen are also
present in Antarctica and are plotting to sabotage the device, giving
them the opportunity to conquer the planet in the confusion caused by
the reversal. The device is activated prematurely, crippling the
Cybermen, and giving the Doctor the opportunity to stop the Cyber
forces.

References:Doctor
Who: The New Adventures: Iceberg, Doctor Who Magazine Special
Edition #3, DWM Special Edition #10

Notes: Tucker was a visual effects
assistant on Doctor Who. He and Perry had already submitted one
script under a pseudonym, and when this was rejected, Tucker admitted to
script editor Andrew Cartmel that he was one of the writers responsible.
Cartmel encouraged Perry and Tucker to try again, and they developed
“Illegal Alien” in 1988. At this point, Ian Briggs was
working on The Curse Of Fenric,
which had a similar setting; as such, he advised the pair to wait before
submitting their work. They finally did so in early 1989, having written
two scripts and storylined the closing episode. However, any further
development ceased when Doctor Who was cancelled in September of
that year. Perry and Tucker later adapted “Illegal Alien” as
a novel for BBC Books, published in October 1997.

Characters: The Seventh
Doctor, Ace

Episodes: 3

Planned For: Seasons
Twenty-Six and Twenty-Seven

Stage Reached: Partial
scripts

Synopsis: The Doctor and Ace confront the
Cybermen in World War II London.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine #255, DWM Special Edition #10

The Impersonators

Writers: Malcolm Hulke

Notes: Hulke was commissioned to
write a storyline for “The Impersonators” on July 5th, 1968.
It was planned that this adventure would form Serial ZZ, with a four-part
Serial AAA by Derrick Sherwin then serving as the final story for the
Second Doctor. However, when problems hit both projects, it was decided to
instead conclude Season Six with a ten-part Serial ZZ, which became The War Games, cowritten by Hulke.
“The Impersonators” was formally abandoned on December 30th.

Characters: The Second
Doctor, Jamie, Zoe

Episodes: 6

Planned For: Penultimate
story of Season Six

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Unknown

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #4

The Imps

Writer: William Emms

Notes: A year after the
transmission of his Galaxy 4, Emms
was commissioned to write “The Imps” on October 17th, 1966.
The story was rushed into production when it was decided that The Underwater Menace could not be
suitably realised on Doctor Who's budget. Emms completed draft
scripts and some rewrites before falling ill in November. Around this
time, producer Innes Lloyd and story editor Gerry Davis decided to add the
character of Jamie as a new companion in The
Highlanders, the story preceding “The Imps”, meaning
that the character would have to be incorporated into Emms' scripts. With
the writer too sick to do the necessary work, The Underwater Menace was resurrected in
its spot in the schedule. It was intended that “The Imps”
would now follow it into production, but by mid-December, the spot had
been given to The Moonbase.
“The Imps” was formally rejected on January 4th, 1967,
possibly because it would have needed substantial reworking to accommodate
the planned exit of Ben and Polly, and the introduction of a new female
companion. Emms later used elements of the story for his Sixth Doctor
choose-your-own-adventure book, Mission To Venus, published in
1986.

Characters: The Second Doctor,
Polly, Ben (and later Jamie)

Episodes: 4

Planned For: The fifth or
sixth serial of Season Four

Stage Reached: Complete
scripts

Synopsis: An interplanetary passenger
liner lands at a remote spaceport on Earth, bearing with it imp-like
creatures who can become intangible, and alien spores. They cause an
aggressive form of vegetation to spring up around the spaceport and
attack the humans within.

Notes: On June 19th, 1984, Bidmead
was commissioned to provide a storyline inspired by the writer's
interest in physics and particularly string theory. By the time full
scripts were requested on November 21st, the serial had gained the title
“In The Hollows Of Time”. It was probably earmarked as the
fifth story of Season Twenty-Three, to be directed by Matthew Robinson
(who had recently worked on Attack Of The
Cybermen and would also be the director of season premiere
“The Nightmare Fair”) as Serial 7E. However, on February
27th, 1985, it was announced that production of Doctor Who was
being suspended until Spring 1986, with the programme then returning for
a season of twenty-five-minute episodes. Bidmead was asked to rework his
storyline for this format. But then, at the end of May, it was decided
that Season Twenty-Three would be only fourteen episodes long, leading
to the development of The Trial Of A Time
Lord and the abandonment of all of the original Season
Twenty-Three serials. In February 2010, Bidmead's audio adaptation of
his storyline was released by Big Finish Productions under the slightly
amended title “The Hollows Of Time”.

Notes: Follett was a novelist who
pitched this idea circa September 1979, when it was rejected by script
editor Douglas Adams. Follett resubmitted “Into The Comet”
to new script editor Christopher H Bidmead around May 1980, but once
again the storyline was not pursued.

Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Romana, K-9

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Eighteen

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Involved monsters attacking a
race of beings who live inside Halley's Comet, unaware that there is
anything beyond it.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #9, Doctor Who: The
Eighties

Invasion Of The Veridians

Writer: Nabil Shaban

Notes: Shaban was a longtime fan of
Doctor Who, and had previously suggested himself to replace the
late Roger Delgado as the Master. In offering this script to the
production office in 1980, Shaban also put himself forward as a
potential successor to Tom Baker as the Doctor. Nothing came of
“Invasion Of The Veridians”, but Shaban later played Sil in
1985's Vengeance On Varos and
1986's The Trial Of A Time Lord.

Notes: Producer Graham Williams was
enamoured with the way the Time Lords had been developed in The Deadly Assassin, and wanted a
Gallifrey-related story to close Season Fifteen. Script editor Anthony
Read approached Weir, with whom he had worked on The
Troubleshooters. The result, “Killers Of The Dark”, was
commissioned on July 18th, 1977, and was influenced by Weir's interest
in Oriental cultures. (The adventure may also have been known as
“The Killer Cats Of Geng Singh” or some variation thereof,
although this appears to have been a title made up by Williams after the
fact.) A month later, however, both Read and director Gerald Blake
determined that Weir's scripts were impossible to realise on Doctor
Who's limited budget, boasting set pieces such as a stadium full of
cat people. Reluctantly, “Killers Of The Dark” was abandoned
in mid-August, leaving Williams and Read to hurriedly write The Invasion Of Time in its place.

Synopsis: The Doctor and his companions
are forced to perpetually enact the King's favourite story without
changing any aspect of it.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #4, The Doctor Who Chronicles:
Season Five

Knight Fall

Writer: Ben Aaronovitch

Notes: This unsolicited idea was
submitted in May 1987. Script editor Andrew Cartmel liked some of the
concepts, but felt that there were too many supporting characters and
that it was generally inappropriate for Doctor Who. However, he
encouraged Aaronovitch to pitch more stories, and this soon led to Remembrance Of The Daleks.

Characters: The Seventh
Doctor

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Twenty-Five

Stage Reached:
Unknown

Synopsis: Concerned privatisation.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #10

The Krikkitmen

Writer: Douglas Adams

Notes: This was one of several
ideas that Adams proposed to the production office around 1976. It was
rejected by script editor Robert Holmes, who nonetheless encouraged
Adams to continue submitting material; this ultimately led to his
commission for The Pirate Planet.
Later, in 1980, Adams revised “The Krikkitmen” for use by
Paramount Pictures as a potential Doctor Who feature film,
although nothing came of this project. Finally, Adams included many of
the ideas from “The Krikkitmen” in his novel Life, The
Universe And Everything, the second sequel to his fantastically
popular The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Sarah Jane

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Probably Season
Fifteen

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Two million years ago, the
inhabitants of the planet Krikkit built a race of androids called the
Krikkitmen to wipe out all life in the universe. They were stopped by
the Time Lords, who trapped Krikkit within a temporal prison. Now,
however, a group of Krikkitmen which escaped the Time Lords' sentence
are trying to reassemble the components of a key which can free Krikkit
-- components of which happen to resemble elements of the Earth game of
cricket, itself actually a reflection of the ancient war. The Doctor and
Sarah stumble upon this plot when they see the Krikkitmen steal the
Ashes during a test match at Lords. They then travel to the planet
Bethselamin to foil the next step in the Krikkitmen's quest.

Notes: By late April 1968, it was
clear that Frazer Hines would be leaving Doctor Who sometime during
Season Six. One candidate for his departure story was Haisman and
Lincoln's third Yeti serial, which they were working on around the start
of June. Over the summer, however, the writers became embroiled in a
dispute over copyright with the BBC regarding the Quarks, robot monsters
which had appeared in their previous Doctor Who commission, The Dominators. The ensuing acrimony
resulted in the abandonment of “The Laird Of McCrimmon” during
August.

Characters: The Second
Doctor, Jamie, Victoria

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Six

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: A possessed Jamie pilots the
TARDIS to 1746 Scotland and his ancestral home, Castle McCrimmon. There,
he finds the current Laird, Sir James, is on his deathbed. Yeti appear and
surround the castle while the local villagers fall under the influence of
the Great Intelligence; the only person who seems to be immune is a girl
named Fiona, with whom Jamie falls in love. The Great Intelligence wants
to inhabit Jamie's body and become the Laird once Sir James dies. However,
the Intelligence is defeated by the Doctor, and Jamie decides to stay
behind and become Laird himself.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine #262, DWM Special Edition #4

The Land Of Fear

Writer: John Leekley

Notes: This was one of several
storylines developed for, but dropped from, Leekley's series bible for
Philip Segal's version of Doctor Who, released on March 21st,
1994. It was based on Dennis Spooner's The
Reign Of Terror.

Characters: A reimagined
version of the First Doctor

Episodes: 1 (45
minutes)

Planned For: 1995
series

Stage Reached:
Story idea

Synopsis: The Doctor knows that his lost
father, Ulysses, was acquainted with Robespierre, and so he travels to
1790 Paris. There he meets an English spy named James Stirling, who is
plotting Robespierre's assassination.

Notes: Grimwade submitted this idea
after completing Planet Of Fire in
1983, at a time when his relationship with both producer John
Nathan-Turner and script editor Eric Saward was in decline. A storyline
was commissioned on August 13th, 1984. On November 8th, however,
Nathan-Turner decided to drop “League Of The Tandreds”,
apparently for budgetary reasons.

Characters: The Sixth Doctor,
Peri

Episodes: 2
(45-minute)

Planned For: Season
Twenty-Two or Twenty-Three

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: Unknown

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #3, Doctor Who: The
Eighties

Leviathan

aka Livanthian

Writer: Brian Finch

Notes: Finch was a veteran writer
who was known to producer John Nathan-Turner from his scripts for All
Creatures Great & Small, on which Nathan-Turner had served as
production unit manager; Finch's other credits included episodes of the
science-fiction classic The Tomorrow People. Finch was
commissioned to write “Livanthian” (a misspelling of
“Leviathan”) on August 14th, 1983. His scripts were
submitted in November -- with the title appropriately amended -- but
they were apparently deemed too costly to make. After Finch's death in
2007, his son, Paul, offered these scripts to Big Finish Productions for
their forthcoming range of Doctor Who audio plays based upon
unmade serials. Paul himself performed the necessary rewrites on
“Leviathan”, which was released in January 2010.

Notes: Wakeman was part of an
early set of writers approached in summer 1963 to contribute to
Doctor Who, which was still in development. Wakeman's storyline,
“The Living Planet”, was deemed to have sufficient potential
that the script for the first episode was commissioned on July 31st.
(References on some production documents which described this script as
a “pilot” would later provoke erroneous speculation that
Wakeman's episode may have been considered as an alternative to launch
Doctor Who in lieu of 100,000
BC.) At this point, the Doctor's granddaughter was still known
as Suzanne (rather than Susan) and her female teacher was Barbara
Canning (instead of Barbara Wright). Wakeman also used ideas for the
programme's backstory developed by 100,000
BC writer Anthony Coburn but ultimately discarded, in which
Suzanne is really an alien princess named Findooclare and she and the
Doctor are being pursued by the mysterious Palladins. Wakeman's planned
episode titles were Airfish, What Eats What?, The
Living Planet, and Just In Time. “The Living
Planet” was deemed to be too sophisticated for the intended child
audience and abandoned. In 2005, following Doctor Who's
successful return to television, Wakeman unsuccessfully offered
“The Living Planet” to executive producer Russell T Davies.

Characters: The First Doctor,
Suzanne, Ian, Barbara

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Season
One

Stage Reached: Script for
episode one

Synopsis: The TARDIS lands on a planet
whose surface is largely covered with a pattern of small, edible
hexagonal structures. The travellers are attacked by flying metallic
fish which also surround the TARDIS. The Doctor fears that the
mysterious Palladins have finally caught up to himself and Suzanne, but
they are saved when long stems extend out from the hexagons, spearing
the animals. They realise that the fish are part of the planet's bizarre
ecosystem. Drawn by a strange, maddening sound, they discover a series
of holes, down which Suzanne becomes trapped. Ian ventures into a hole
to rescue her, and they deduce that the entire planet is a gigantic
living organism -- the hexagons are like skin cells and the holes permit
respiration. The planet tries to absorb the TARDIS, but its alien
construction is incompatible and the planet is forced to release it,
allowing the travellers to escape.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Summer Special 1994, DWM Special Edition #4,
Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor, Nothing At The End
Of The Lane #3

The Lords Of Misrule

Writer: Ted Willis

Notes: One of the founding fathers
of British television drama, Dixon Of Dock Green creator Willis
had worked with Doctor Who script editor Anthony Read during the
Sixties. Read commissioned Willis to write “The Lords Of
Misrule” in late 1977 or early 1978, but it does not appear that
it proceeded past the storyline stage. Its spot was eventually taken by
The Power Of Kroll.

Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Romana, K-9

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Fifth story of
Season Sixteen

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: The people of the planet
Tetran are enslaved by the cruel Shadowlords, who rule from an orbiting
castle. The Shadowlords hunt their subjects using wolf-life Prowlers,
and force them to duel one another. The Doctor discovers that the
Tetrans are actually descended from the survivors of a crashed mining
ship, while the Shadowlords are security robots, disguised and maddened
due to their connection with the pilot, who is held on the brink of
death by the vessel's computer. K-9 severs the pilot's link with the
ship, deactivating the Shadowlords. The Doctor and Romana recover the
fifth segment of the Key To Time, concealed as a massive crystal
powering the Shadowlords' castle.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Summer Special 1995

The Lords Of The Red Planet

Writer: Brian Hayles

Notes: Producer Peter Bryant
requested a second Ice Warrior adventure from their creator, Brian Hayles,
both to capitalise on the popularity of the monsters following their debut
in The Ice Warriors, and to get
additional use out of the expensive costumes. “The Lords Of The Red
Planet” was commissioned on February 2nd, 1968. However, no further
development seems to have taken place, and on July 15th, a new Ice Warrior
storyline -- The Seeds Of Death --
was commissioned from Hayles. In November 2013, Big Finish Productions
released an audio adaptation of “Lords Of The Red Planet” by
John Dorney.

Notes: After directing The Seeds Of Doom for Season Thirteen,
Camfield approached producer Philip Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert
Holmes about the possibility of writing a serial for the next block of
episodes, as Camfield also had some scripting credits to his name.
Holmes harboured doubts about the idea, but Hinchcliffe was enthusiastic
and so “The Lost Legion” was commissioned on January 22nd,
1976. The story idea stemmed from Camfield's fascination with military
history, and his admiration of the 1924 novel Beau Geste by PC
Wren. By this point, Elisabeth Sladen had already indicated that she
would be leaving Doctor Who after the second story of Season
Fourteen, and so “The Lost Legion” was developed with the
intention of dramatically writing Sarah Jane Smith out of the programme
by killing her off. It was anticipated that Camfield would also direct
his own serial. When he submitted his first script on February 9th,
however, it did not meet Holmes' approval, and he began to groom The Hand Of Fear as a possible
replacement. Camfield thereafter became increasingly late with his
submissions, and “The Lost Legion” was taken off the
schedule by the end of March. Camfield continued working on the story --
finally submitting the script for part four on September 24th -- but by
this time the production team had no interest in developing it further.

Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Sarah Jane

Episodes: 4

Planned For: Second serial of
Season Fourteen

Stage Reached: Complete
script

Synopsis: An isolated North African
outpost of the French Foreign Legion becomes the focal point of a
confrontation between the Skarkel and the Khoorians, two factions of an
alien race. At the story's conclusion, the last of the aliens shoots
Sarah Jane as it dies, and she expires in the Doctor's arms. The
Legionnaires build a funeral pyre for Sarah, which burns as the TARDIS
dematerialises.

References:Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #8

Lungbarrow

Writer: Marc Platt

Notes: Platt was working on
“Lungbarrow” by the autumn of 1988, drawing elements from
Mervyn Peake's 1950 fantasy novel Gormenghast and its sequels.
“Lungbarrow” was meant to be a milestone in script editor
Andrew Cartmel's redevelopment of the Doctor Who mythos,
introducing the notion that Time Lords are sterile and maintain their
population through the use of genetic Looms. The Doctor begins to
realise that he is related, through the Loom at Lungbarrow, to the
Other -- a mysterious figure in Gallifreyan prehistory who was part of a
triumvirate of Time Lord pioneers with Rassilon and Omega. However,
producer John Nathan-Turner was wary of rushing into such a major
revelation, and so “Lungbarrow” was reworked as Ghost Light. Platt later used his
original storyline as the basis for the final Seventh Doctor release in
Virgin Publishing's Doctor Who: The New Adventures range; this
Lungbarrow was published in March 1997.

Characters: The Seventh
Doctor, Ace

Episodes: Unknown

Planned For: Season
Twenty-Six

Stage Reached:
Storyline

Synopsis: The Doctor confronts his
bizarre family of cousins at Lungbarrow, his sentient ancestral home in
South Gallifrey.